Willie, John; Allen Jones (forew.); Harry Benjamin (pref.); Eric Stanton (art)
 
The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline (Limited Edition)
 
New York: Belier Press, 1974. First Edition, first print, a limited "deluxe" edition in original dust jacket and printed slipcase, no. 11 of 300 copies, with two numbered prints (7 x 10 inches), one by John Willie, the other by Eric Stanton, who has signed the print in holograph pencil, housed in printed folder affixed to the rear pastedown. Quarto hardcover, 144[46]pp, b/w/color throughout. Illustrated adult erotic comics featuring bondage, female domination, bound women, riding crops, and dastardly captors. Reprints selections from Coutts' own magazine, Bizarre (1946-59), where he issued serial cartoons and photographs to subscribers, and reprinted several times. Precedent for styles of Eric Stanton and the Klaw siblings. Very Good in Very Good plus jacket and slipcase; light toning, brief stains, textblock detached at p142-43, w/o loose pages, jacket & slipcase lightly toned, foxing, prints lightly toned else Near Fine. From the estate of Andrew J. Offutt, author of science-fiction, fantasy, and underground erotica, and a Stanton colleague. Stanton and Offutt collaborated on 100s of original erotic comics and digest fiction, notably "Stantoons" and "Blunder Broad" digests, and were close friends who regularly corresponded through letters, photographs, story and art proofs, or sexy trinkets. Offutt was an avid science fiction author noted for "Conan"-themed fantasies, debuted as a published writer in 1951, and wrote 100s of erotic novels pseudonymously as John Cleve, Turk Winter, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, Opal Andrews, and others. His "Spaceways" series is perhaps the ultimate collaboration of science fiction and erotica. He and Stanton could be credited with surviving and propagating the publishing crash of the 1970s as VHS brought new audiences to adult entertainment, while converting previous generations. For consenting, mature audiences. Scarce smut.